I thought this was funny but I do have kinda shitty humor.

>Funny how factory farms that started this epidemic...

Funny how you post this knowing absolutely nothing about where avian flu even comes from...

>Avian influenza refers to disease in birds caused by infection with avian (bird) influenza (flu) Type A viruses. Avian influenza A viruses have been isolated from more than 100 different species of wild birds around the world. These viruses occur naturally among wild aquatic birds worldwide and can infect domestic poultry and other bird and animal species. Wild aquatic birds include waterbirds (waterfowl) such as ducks, geese, swans, gulls, and terns, and shorebirds, such as storks, plovers, and sandpipers. Wild aquatic birds, especially dabbling ducks, are considered reservoirs (hosts) for avian influenza A viruses. Wild aquatic birds can be infected with avian influenza A viruses in their intestines and respiratory tract, but some species, such as ducks, may not get sick. However, avian influenza A viruses are very contagious among birds, and some of these viruses can sicken and even kill certain domesticated bird species, including chickens, ducks and turkeys.

The calcium is good for chickens. I’m pretty sure they mix shells into feed to keep it high.

Free Range Chickens = Homeless Chickens

Never put that together before...

Funny how people think free range means chickens are actually outside to begin with lol

You see sometimes we have more words than fit on a single line. So once you're done with the words on one line you move to the next.

They can't mix with the wild birds (and catch flu off of them) if they are indoors.

So that one barn load can't spread it to another barn load while they're out mixing it up in the yard.

That’s cage-free.

Give them time, they're almost there.

Considering 90+% of birds come from factory farms (US based stat, I don’t have data for Ireland) and given what we know about large scale industrial farming, if I were one of those birds I’d say someone looking out for my welfare would actually let me die of bird flu rather than continuing my tortuous life.

I agree with you! Most people don't give a fuck about chickens. If people really wanted to give a shit they should refrain from eating eggs at least until birds flu is over so that there doesn't need to be so many chickens.

"Laid by Hens" rather than laid by what, cows?

Thanks. Do you happen to know why it's safer to keep them locked together indoors as opposed to free range in regards to this? I couldn't find anything online about the details of the why

Wild birds shit on their free range.

https://www.farmersjournal.ie/farm-producing-54-million-eggs-per-year-609746

This article highlights an Irish egg laying barn system that was being intentionally built prior to this flu. The image captioned "A view of part of a section of the multi-level free-range laying house" shows off a modern barn.

https://www.poultrynews.co.uk/production/egg-production/analysis-who-will-pay-for-the-new-barn-eggs-standards.html

Same thing here, although you can at least see there's some free space they're not making use of.

That's the intentional barns, too. I wonder if the producers who weren't intending for full-time barn raised chickens had decent facilities for them.

It's a really bad pandemic, and heartbreakingly it's got I to populations of wild odds, and is devastating some major colonies. It's the avian equivalent of COVID, and I mean that in all seriousness

Funny how factory farms that started this epidemic (due to their cramped and unhygienic living conditions) now have forced everyone to house their chickens indoors.

Less exposure to wild birds

Even the damn chicken are on welfare now! This county really is going to shit.

Same reason quarantining during Covid slowed the spread. Flu outbreaks are localized.

How does moving them inside help with flu, though? Presumably they would be in more crowded conditions inside?

yeah I pick up a new hen every time i get a dozen eggs. i'm running out of room tbh

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